Bangladeshi Madrassa Grads Can Now Sit For Civil Service Exams

An op-ed in Bangladesh’s Financial Express today strongly criticizes a decision taken last week by the government of Bangladesh to recognize degrees from Islamic madrashas as equal to degrees from mainstream educational institutions. This will for the first time permit madrasha graduates to sit for the Bangladesh Civil Service Exams. Columnist Enayet Rasul asserts: "after becoming civil servants they will not help the end of good governance any because of their sheer knowledge deficiency and, on the other, many of them can be expected to work behind the wings for the Islamic extremists to wage Islamic revolution or to Islamise the administration."